To kick off Movember, the month-long mustache growing contest for charity, we’ve put together this list of the manliest mustaches in history. Enjoy!
Tom Selleck
When pre-pubescent mustaches grow up, they want to be Tom Selleck’s mustache. It’s a modern mustache masterpiece. Magnum P.I. wouldn’t have been the same with some dude with a naked upper lip.
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite’s mustache was the most trustworthy mustache in all of news history. And that’s the way it is…
Eddie Murphy
During the 1980s and early 90s, no mustache was funnier than Eddie Murphy’s. We won’t hold Eddie Murphy’s mustache responsible for Daddy Day Care or Norbit.
Alex Trebek
I’ll take game show host who lost major manliness points when he shaved his mustache for $800, Alex.
Daniel Plainview
Daniel Plainview’s mustache will drink your milkshake. And then bludgeon you to death with a bowling pin.
Hussein bin Talal
The King of Jordan’s mustache had an uber-manly lineage; it can be be traced all the way back to the Prophet Muhammad. Today, his son Abdullah II carries on his father’s peaceful policies and the manly mustache.
Errol Flynn
Australian film star Errol Flynn had a swashbuckling mustache that could make even tights look manly.
Rollie Fingers
Rollie Fingers brought back the waxed handlebar mustaches rocked by the baseball players of yore. Diamondbacks relief pitcher Clay Zavada carries that torch today.
Steve Prefontaine
Scientists have proven that the secret to Steve Prefontaine’s record-setting running times was the aerodynamics of his mustache.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a Western legend. Some sources say he killed up to 30 men during his time as a lawman in the American frontier. He didn’t even have to use bullets; his mustache knocked em’ over cold.
Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy is the manliest fictional news anchor to ever live. He loves scotch (scotchy, scotch, scotch), leather-bound books, and the smell of rich mahogany. And of course, he had a kick ass mustache that injected the news with testosterone.
Clark Gable
Clark Gable’s mustache doesn’t give a damn.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s mustache can provide meaning to the life of even the most strident nihilist. Look at that thing. Awe inspiring.
Genghis Khan
Not only did Genghis Khan grow a manly mustache and rule over the largest empire in history, he also rocked the flavor saver way before it was cool. Wait, was the flavor saver ever cool?
Mark Twain
Mark Twain had some strong words to say about beards: “It performs no useful function; it is a nuisance and a discomfort; all nations hate it; all nations persecute it with the razor.” Guess that’s why he decided to go with an awesome mustache instead.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream, a dream that all men will grow a mustache as magnificent as MLK’s.
Mark Spitz
Michael Phelps may now have more medals, but Spitz’s mustache could beat Phelp’s any day of the week.
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OMAR SHERIF!!! the one he sported in “Dr.Zhivago” is legendary
If the father of modern cricket W.G. Grace is not on a beardier version of this list I will eat my cap.
http://freespace.virgin.net/jill.hewett/gifs/grace.gif
If Fingers is on the list he should be coupled with Catfish Hunter. 72, 73, and 74 World Series dynasty won by Oakland’s ‘stache clad bullpen.
And I vote Cheech Marin. Potheads don’t make the manliest of men, but hilarious none the less.
You guys are forgetting Keith Hernandez and Clyde Frazier. Also as much as I despise him as a baseball announcer, but back in the day Al Hrabosky had pretty nice stache as well.
This is a great list. My dad wore a mustache for more than twenty years, but, sadly, shaved it off when it started turning grey.
Difinitely agree on Tom Selleck :)
What about the great australian cricketers of the late ’80′s and early ’90s? Now there were some incredible national icons of mustaches lore!!! David Boon and Merv Hughes will always be the ‘stached heros of cricket.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2009/7/17/1247840973038/David-Boon-001.jpg
http://about.theage.com.au/150images/1989_04b.jpg
Missed out on Arthur Saxon’s moustache.
http://sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Saxon/saxon.gif
Well, I’d like to make him soup but I guess it’s impossible now…..Baboo!
jamie from mythbusters!
Glad to see Wilford Brimley with the diabeetustache. He was my second thought upon reading the title of this post.
First thought went to Freddy Mercury. I know, I know, his homosexual tendencies and falsetto vocals aren’t necessarily the manliest things out there, but let’s face it: if anybody knew how to rock a mustache and excessive body hair, it was this guy.
Kaiser Wilhelm II had a special barber whose sole function was to trim and wax Wilhelm’s moustache daily.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Kaiser_Wilhelm_II,_1905.jpg
I would like to point your eyes towards the manliest moustache worn by the manliest Canadian to ever live – Lt. Gen (ret) Romeo Dallaire, former Commander of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Rwanda.
http://k9freakingout.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/17674.jpg
Salvador Dali
William Faulkner
Edger Allan Poe
William Shakespeare
Charlie Chaplin
Second Salvador Dali and Freddie Mercury. Regardless of what insecure boys say, gay does not mean not manly.
I agree with some of the ones left off the list, e.g Lech Welesa, Salvador Dali, Charlie Chaplin, Freddy Mercury, Gomez Addams, Walt “Clyde” Frazier and definitely Billy Dee Williams. I agree, however, that it is way too US focused….one of the greatest mustaches of all time belongs to Indian film star RAJNIKANT! Remember, the mustache lives on as a sign of mainstream manliness in India. Police officers are paid a BONUS to grow mustaches in India!
One other mustache that was left off is someone known as the ‘stache….Adam Morrison! He shaves his ‘stache = his career declines precipitously…
And one other one….Tony Stark (pre-Robert Downey goatee style) always sported a debonair stache to attract the ladies and defeat the villains!
Ossian Everett Mills. Ask any Sinfonian.
For shame. You forgot Lee Marvin in “Paint your Wagon.”
The description of Chamberlain’s mustache just made my day…
Once you had Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot, the mustache list was pretty complete. All others are also-rans.
Agree with Matt. There are million great suggestions, but my vote goes to Otto Von Bismark’s mustache. You can never wear a pointy metal hat like this and look serious without looking like a real MAN. Just look at his mustache and disagree with that.
http://www.mdln.hws.edu/german/moderne/Bismarck-1871.gif
Sexuality aside, I’m appalled that Freddie Mercury’s mustache was not included in this list. Despite the fact that Freddie did dudes, his attractiveness to the ladies and the epic status of his ‘stache are undeniable. The album cover of “I Was Born to Love You” contains scientific proof.
http://991.com/newGallery/Freddie-Mercury-I-Was-Born-To-Lov-156285.jpg
Oliver Wendell Holmes, former Supreme Court Justache…. any mustache that is wider than your face without using wax is manly by default. Also, he rocked it most of his adult life.
http://www.phillwebb.net/Topics/Society/Holmes/Holmes.htm
You forgot the most famous mustache in history: Adolph Hitler.
what about Orville Wright?
It’s been said on here already, but seriously Keith Hernandez had one of the manliest mustaches in baseball history, and smoking while playing baseball just adds to the man-stique.
http://www.bronxbrasstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/keith-hernandez-baseball-demotivational1.jpg
Jamie Hyneman from the Mythbusters
No John Holmes huh? I think the chicks loved him for his mustache…
Stalin why doesn’t the man of steel have recognition for his stash of steel.
Loving the J. L. Chamberlain appreciation! Now there was an heroic ‘tache.
George E. Ohr, an abstract potter http://northernwebdesign.com/gohr1/01.jpg His mustachio was over a foot long. He was known as The Mad Potter of Biloxi and made some pretty trippy pieces.
Józef Piłsudski
and he had a sweet hair cut to boot!
http://www.e-kultura.pl/upload/jozef_pilsudski.jpg
Can’t believe Freddy mercury isn’t on this list
Jamie Hyneman needs to be on this list.
3 words:
Lee. Van. Cleef.
Criminally overlooked in the Realm of Immortal Moustaches .
Ron Swanson!
John Waters. Most pencil-y of all pencil mustaches in the universe. Ever.
What about John L. Sullivan and Ambrose Burnside. Drop Will Farrell off the list, he couldn’t be manly if he tried.
How about Freddie Mercury
Dale Earnhardt
cheech marin and hulk hogan
cheech is a good one, how about Freddie mercury? i think im gonna go with the handlebars fro movember.
No Burt Reynolds?
Shame.
Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters!
Salvador D A L I ~ of course!!!
Daniel Plainview is the character who’s veing interpreted… The actor–owner of the mustache–is Daniel Day-Lewis.
Freddie Mercury definitely. Do I have to say anything else?
This list is more “Iconic” Than “Manly”
Like many others I feel like Salvador Dali is missing
Bruce Lee
http://data.whicdn.com/images/2356692/Bruce-Lee-Photo-2_large.jpg
I’d also like to submit this robot’s ‘stache for review. I think it’s pretty manly :-{D
https://twitter.com/i/#!/TheRobotsLAB/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2Fs6CXVNrx
What about:
Mike Ditka
Wayne Newton
and, most importantly..
LEMMY!!
Dieter Meyer: the vocalist of the super-duo Yello, well known for that mindblowing “Oh Yeah”. Dieter’s the gentleman of music industry and a man of both perfect voice and moustache.
http://youtu.be/DAH8XMsrdL0
It’s all about the stache!
Where the hell is Adolf Menjou?? If you’re gonna be the legendary “best dressed man in Hollywood”, it’s pretty much a given that you’re gonna have an equally manly mustache! Oh, and swap out Eddie Murphy for Billy Dee Williams fer cryin’ out loud.
Definitely Kaiser Wilhelm II. He certainly had a mustache becoming of his position in the German Empire.
I don’t know how it started but I have loved moustaches from way back. A fellow squaddie when I did my military service George ?? always turned me on. I tried to grope him. He just brushed me off in a friendly way.
Saddam Hussein
mexican actor cantinflas
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&biw=1138&bih=538&tbm=isch&tbnid=arv1FcdmfNQlHM:&imgrefurl=http://felixcasanova.blogspot.com/2010/05/cantinflas-todo-un-genio-del-humor.html&docid=PvojymGX1kur7M&imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5QdF-3c1Ae4/S99I38bHZGI/AAAAAAAABoI/mirJJt9OWNo/s1600/cantinflas.jpg&w=347&h=450&ei=aiNaUeCgCef0iQLCv4DQDQ&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:3,s:0,i:93&iact=rc&dur=1972&page=1&tbnh=170&tbnw=140&start=0&ndsp=13&tx=41&ty=102
I know this is a really old article, and I didn’t read through the comments but Andy Williams from Every Time I Die often times sports a ridiculous mustache. Sometimes it is accompanied by a beard.
Jacob Crossley- best anchor mustache ever. end of story.
Um, helloooo? GROUCHO MARX. Sure, in the beginning his mustache was grease paint, but he eventually grew out his mustache and it was FABULOUS.
Ron Swanson and Derek Walcott must be added
Lanny McDonald never came close to 98 goals in a season….
I cant believe u did not add … Kaiser Wilhem II and George V , Tsar Nicholas II
Those in my opinion are awesome moustaches .
Could you post an update where you give a list of styles that are more in touch with today’s times? Mustaches that would be considered cool according to present trends…
I scrolled through the first 2/3 of the list terrified that Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain wouldn’t be on here. Thank God
Stalin should be on here.
I mean, just look at that mustache
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wxdgAiRcjHg/TmGF3cAnttI/AAAAAAAAGEM/fYvHGh8e2b8/s1600/stalinDM2109_468x551.jpg
How is Freddie Mercury not on there?!
What about Marty Robbins?
Captain Kangaroo :)
How are we forgetting Ron Swanson? Who eats his steak with a side of steak.
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